Donald Trump

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

I'm not sure we should be gloating too much. A substantial minority in the UK would love Nigel Farage as PM.

That's about as sane as wanting me to play centre-forward for City.

A decade or so ago that would've been a possibility.

 

[Vienna_70]

To go back to a subject long past (because I like this kind of shit!): “mathematics”. The plural morpheme is there because it's made up of several distinct fields of study (algebra, geometry and arithmetic being the most obvious). However, those fields are considered to make up, collectively, a whole, generally dealing with the field of numbers, so that whole is treated in English as an uncountable — or mass — noun, and logically takes the third-person singular as a following verb form.

It's just different ways of looking at it. By the way, in my “other” language, we say « les mathématiques », and that noun phrase therefore governs the following verb form, as in « les mathématiques sont très complexes ». And of course the adjective has to agree. However, in the distant past French did have « la mathématique », so it gradually evolved.
Anybody looking for pure logic in natural languages is going to find themselves on a wild goose chase, by and large. They just don't work like that, or only very imperfectly.

Now, Trumps and his politic. Where were we… ? (By the way, why do we say “Rodders?”)

I don’t; I say, "Dave".

 

[KS55]

It will only become famous in American political history if Trump is defeated in November. If Trump gets in, you might as well forget it all.

Nope. History includes the failures too. See, eg, Zinoviev letter.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Nope. History includes the failures too. See, eg, Zinoviev letter.

True, but this is Trump we're talking about.

 

[dickie davies]

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

"YOU'RE GOD DAMN RIGHT I ORDERED THE CODE RED!!!"

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

"YOU'RE GOD DAMN RIGHT I ORDERED THE CODE RED!!!"

Which begs the question . . . “In the inevitable movie about Trump, who plays him?”

I’m thinking John Goodman. Or what’s his name — Wayne Knight from Seinfeld.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Which begs the question . . . “In the inevitable movie about Trump, who plays him?”

I’m thinking John Goodman. Or what’s his name — Wayne Knight from Seinfeld.

I would have said Alec Baldwin, but he might not be up to the gig these days.

Maybe Jeff Bridges?

 

[KS55]

I would have said Alec Baldwin, but he might not be up to the gig these days.

Maybe Jeff Bridges?

Curly Watts.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Which begs the question . . . “In the inevitable movie about Trump, who plays him?”

I’m thinking John Goodman. Or what’s his name — Wayne Knight from Seinfeld.

I'd like to see Nicolas Cage give it a go.